My family has run a hostel in La Serena, Chile for over 10 years. Every month I watched the same thing happen: Booking.com and Airbnb taking 15–18% of every reservation. Excel spreadsheets to track guests. WhatsApp to confirm bookings manually. Zero data. Zero control. Maximum effort for shrinking margins. The tools that could fix this? $300–700/month. Completely out of reach for a 10-room hostel. So I built Fridest. The idea was simple: give independent hotels the same weapons the big chains have — at a price that actually makes sense. Here's what that looks like in practice: → A booking widget hotels embed on their own site. Guests book directly. Zero commissions. Ever. → AI dynamic pricing with 3 strategies (conservative, moderate, aggressive) that adjusts rates based on demand, occupancy, season, and lead time — automatically. One saved reservation pays for the entire month. → Full hotel management in one place: rooms, guests, payments, and real analytics (RevPAR, ADR, channel mix) — not spreadsheet guesses. → Native Stripe + Webpay/Transbank integration and multi-currency support (USD, EUR, CLP and more). Works anywhere. → A WhatsApp AI bot that sells and answers guests 24/7 — fully built, currently awaiting Meta Business approval. The honest current state: one real pilot customer (the family hostel, 10+ years of operation in Chile). AI pricing running in production. Pre-revenue. Every single feature was validated against a real business with real guests. Competitors charge $300–700/month for less. Fridest starts at $29. We're here to find our first 20 paying customers and hear from anyone who's ever tried to build software for an industry that's been ignored for too long. If you know a hotel owner — share this with them. It might be the tool they've been waiting for without knowing it existed. Happy to answer anything. 🙏

Fridest

Hotel management + AI pricing. No OTA fees. From $29/mo.

Hotel management + AI pricing. No OTA fees. From $29/mo.